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Klein, Valerie - 2007

A major area of concern for sociologists and economists who study poverty and inequality is the financial well being of low-income individuals as measured by their opportunities to participate in what is considered the "mainstream financial market." Scholars suggest that a myriad of factors,...

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Identifying key competences of industrial design and technology graduates in small and medium-sized enterprises

Garner, Steve; Duckworth, Adrian - 1999

Industrial design graduates can be true ‘agents of change’ in manufacturing industry andnowhere is this potential more valuable than in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)where flexibility and speed of response are essential and which make up 94% of the UK economy.However, little...

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Pedagogical innovations in sustainable development: Fair trade in the classroom

Lewis, Katrina; Dickinson, Torry; Lewis, Summer - 2009

groups that work with women-owned cooperatives in Mexico and Nicaragua. By teaching nonviolence studies, this educator helps …

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Teaching Statistics in a Spreadsheet Environment Using Simulation

Barr, Graham D; Scott, Leanne - 2011

The authors’ experiences with a new teaching approach in an introductory statistics course involving some 1200 first … teaching of statistics within a spreadsheet environment whereby students are, inter alia, required to master the basics of MS … exploring the statistical distributions of a number of pieces of information generated by the students. Teaching sessions are …

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Are credit unions in Ecuador achieving economies of scale?

Marchio, Nick A - 2009

This study tests the assertion that membership growth in credit unions is constrained by their unique structural features, such as their non-profit mission and member-based ownership. Although these features enhance inclusiveness, existing theory suggest that they work against efficiency when...

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Three essays on econometrics

Ma, Zhiwei - 2007

The first chapter of this dissertation introduces the generalized minimum contrast estimator (GMC) with nonsmooth moment functions, which includes Empirical Likelihood, Exponential Tilting and Continuous Updating GMM as special cases. Based on empirical process theory, this chapter studies the...

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Economics of oil prices and the role of OPEC

Kisswani, Khalid M - 2009

Two oil price shocks changed the pattern of cheap oil. The first was the Arab embargo on oil exports in 1973. Oil prices rose five fold. In 1978, the second was the fall of Shah Iran. Prices soared to $80-$100 a barrel in today's prices. In 1960, OPEC was established and since then it has been a...

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Minimum wage and low-wage labor markets

Shelkova, Natalya Y - 2009

Low-wage labor markets are traditionally viewed as competitive and the possibility of non-competitive behavior by employers is dismissed. This dissertation consists of three chapters linked by the common purpose of studying the possibility of collusive behavior by employers at the minimum wage....

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Essays on the analysis and implications of two-sided matching markets

Boudreau, James W - 2009

This dissertation examines the fundamental concept of two-sided matching from four different perspectives. The first essay introduces the concept of intercorrelation in preference lists and considers how different degrees of intercorrelation impact the outcomes of centralized matching markets...

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Urban agglomeration, land use and population in a dual economy: A general equilibrium analysis with empirical applications

Bhadra, Dipasis - 1991

Traditional dual sector models have been used extensively to examine the role of efficient use of inputs in determining the process of urbanization in less developed countries. The existence of net agglomerative benefits in the urban sector is said to have been the critical determinant of the...

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